POLITICAL NOTE: Black in White

That Alabama's Senator Hugo La Fayette Black was no stranger to the
Ku Klux Klan was no secret in political Washington when the President
nominated him to the Supreme Court. No one who had not been in the
Klan's good graces could have been elected to the Senate from Alabama
in 1926. So last month when Hugo Black's nomination was confirmed
neither press nor politicians made a serious issue of the Klan. As
twelve years ago there had been good political reasons for his making
Klan connections, so there had long since been...